With an attractive hand-penned style featuring a natural balance between kanji and kana, characters are perfectly aligned whether typeset vertically or horizontally. Leave plenty of space between lines for the best effect.
タテ組・ヨコ組でもラインが揃う、漢字とかなのバランスも自然な手書き風の心地よいペンタッチです。行間をあけてゆったり組むのがおすすめです。硬筆ではなく、行書風の脈絡が生きたペンタッチなので、柔らかでも読みやすい印象の書体です。
The Socho (Song Dynasty-style) typeface is based on a style used for woodblock printing in Song-period China. The SEIBI Socho typeface updates the Song style by making it simpler and sharper. With minimized size variations between kanji and kana, the design is readable both in vertical and horizontal typesetting.
宋朝体の起源は中国の宋の時代に木版印刷に使われた書体です。セイビ宋朝体は、さらにシンプルでシャープなイメージを目指しました。かな、漢字の大小があまりない、タテ組でもヨコ組でも組みやすくデザインしました。本来の宋朝体は骨が細く、右上がりの斜体がかった長体ですが、セイビ宋朝体はそのシャープな特徴を生かしたまま正体に近く、タテでもヨコでも組みやすい書体に仕上げています。毛筆とは違う、木版用書体の彫刻的な堅いエレメントも特徴です。
Originally intended for TV captions, this is a flattened style of font for horizontal typesetting. Although it can be used in vertical typesetting, this universal-design font maximizes legibility by directing the eye naturally along the line of text.
元々TVのテロップを想定した、ヨコ組用の平体デザインのフォントです。タテ組でも使用可能ですが、ヨコ組時に文字を追う視線がスムーズに進むよう考慮した横ラインの揃えと和欧混合文における英数字の視認性を高めたユニバーサルフォントです。エッジを丸みを持たせて、タテ画は太く、ヨコ画は細い明朝体のリズムを取り入れることでデジタルゴシック体特有の堅さや強さを軽減。デジタルフォントでも活字体のような目に優しく読みやすい文字を目指しました。
A Vintage Script for Romance Novels.
Lorette began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known as “Laurel”. The original specimen included standard Capitals, Lowercase, Numerals, and minimal punctuation, for a bare bones character set.
We've fleshed out Lorette to include a full standard character set, an extended international set, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures, Swash Capitals, etc. so it can be a powerhouse script typestyle.
See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.
Opentype features include:
- Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.
- Tabular, Proportional, and OldStyle figure sets.
- A collection of Ligatures mainly revolving around the f character.
- Discretionary Ligatures for ct and st combinations.
- 3 Stylistic Alternates for variations of some of the lowercase characters.
- a Swash feature for swash alternates of the Capital letters.
Approx. 993 Character Glyph Set: Lorette comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features.
Awwam refers to the region of Awwam which is now thought by most scholars to be Ma'rib or the famous temple of Awwam otherwise known as Mahram Bilqis. The Awwam temple - Arabic Haram Bilqis or Mahram Bilqis - is a Sabaean temple near Ma'rib in today’s Yemen. It was built by Mukarrib "Yada'il Dharih I" between the 7th and 5th century B.C. Also, one of the most frequent titles of the God “Almaqah” was the Lord of Awwam. Almaqah was the main God of the ancient Yemeni kingdom of Saba' and also the kingdoms of Dímt and Aksum in Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Different members of the ruling dynasties of Saba' regarded themselves as Almaqah’s children.
Awwam is a wide and headline Arabic display typeface. The main trait of this typeface is the wide, curved, and streamlined design of its wide kashida, letters, and ligatures. This feature renders it as one of the modern stylish typefaces used for headlines, titles, headers, banners, and captions. Among the distinguished letters of Awwam typeface are the “Alef”, “Qaaf”, “Waaw”, “Yaa”, “Gheen”, and others. Moreover, Awwam typeface has a character set which supports Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and simple Latin letters/numerals with a limited range of specific Arabic and Latin ligatures. This font comes in a single weight (i.e., regular) with exactly 650 distinctive glyphs.
Due to its ultra-wide design, Awwam typeface is mostly appropriate for headings and titles in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It can be graphically and visually exploited in books, novels, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, and interfaces of other objects such as clothes and equipment. Moreover, it can be pleasingly used for signs, books' covers, advertisement light boards, and titles of flyers, and books of children and adults. In brief, Awwam typeface is one of the new wide Arabic typefaces which can be utilized efficiently in diverse graphic, typographic, and artistic works for different languages and cultures.
The dearJoe series of fonts came to life around the year 1999, when I created dearJoe 1, which was a first (and half-assed) attempt to convert my own handwriting into a working font. Being able to type in my own hand had always been a childhood fantasy, and even though I only partly understood the software, a working font was generated and I decided to put it on the internet for people to use in their own personal projects.
Which they did: at this moment the dearJoe 1 font has been downloaded millions of times and can be found on Vietnamese riksjas, Tasmanian gyms and chocolate stores on 5th Avenue for instance.
The font is not something I am particularly proud of, but it started me of in building what’s now the JOEBOB graphics foundry.
Inbetween creating other fonts, the dearJoe series has become a theme I revisit every once in a while, trying to create an update on how my handwriting has evolved, along with my abilities in creating fonts that mimic actual handwriting. In the last decade or so I started implementing ligatures and alternate characters, which helped a lot in coming to a result that can almost pass for actual handwriting.
The 2019 dearJoe 7 font is the latest addition to this font family.
All characters were scanned from handwritten notes, cherrypicking the characters and letter-combinations I liked best. They were written with a Lamy M66 B pen and only minor adjustments were made to the original scans, leaving most little flaws and rough edges as they were for a convincing ball-point on paper result.
The font comes with over 150 ligatures, making sure the font has a variated and credible overall look and feel.
Atwic is a simple sans serif typeface. It has a universal look thanks to repeated vertically cut end strokes and thanks to letters that have similar width. Lowercase has higher x-height and its end strokes are open, that a guarantee for better legibility in smaller sizes. Atwic has several alternates which together with left slanted italics freshen the whole family. It’s handy while working on posters, headlines and others. Atwic has especially well designed diacritics to cover 47 latin languages.
Atwic specimen: http://carontwice.com/files/Atwic_specimen_Carontwice.pdf